Perhaps you have felt the joy of a white Christmas in the Northern Hemisphere but for Australians, Christmas arrives towards the start of the summer holidays. This can make our Christmas home décor quite distinctive from the rest of the world. The warmer weather allows us to incorporate summer trends into our decorative themes when preparing for Santa’s arrival.
It takes more than 300,000 stems and flowers to create the David Jones Flower Show. It’s a labour of love that transforms the store floor and all 16 windows with large-scale floral displays interspersed with designer eye candy. The 2013 show is titled The Enchanted Florence and celebrates the work of artist Florence Broadhurst.
Decorative candles create an ambience of natural light that invites a peaceful calm into any event. They are also one of the most cost-effective ways to decorate an event space. But with a huge selection of candle holders to choose from, how do you select the right ones? This helpful guide will explain the different selections of candles holders, and give you some simple styling tips to help inspire you.
Organising flowers can be quite an emotional process. With fresh and fake flower arrangements central to so many important occasions it leaves little room for error on the florists’ part. It’s essential to create an arrangement that is not only visually stunning, but is reliably put together. Using the right tools is the first step in ensuring the blooms are in top shape for the day. Whether it’s a wreath, a pomander ball, a cross or any other floral foam based arrangement being created, mossing pins are preferred by professionals over other pins.
Wow! The entries we received for our table decoration competition were so wonderful it was pretty tough going for the judges. The winning entries made it on to everyone’s shortlist for some creative ideas we can’t wait to try, from the striking use of bold colour and candle-lit branches, to a rustic table setting. So, drum roll please… Congratulations to Cora for winning first place of a $100 voucher. Second place of $50 goes to Carla and third place of a $25 voucher goes to Rebecca.
You’re a busy person, we get that. You want party table centrepieces that look great, don’t require constant upkeep, and won’t take more than 10 minutes to make.
When it’s in season, lavender is a true delight. But a gorgeous lavender stem quickly becomes a rotten one, and a nightmare to clean up at that. Today we’re going to show you how to decorate pillar candles with lavender – only with this project we take the mess out of the matter with an artificial lavender candle holder.
With the changing of the season we see the emergence of delicate, textural flowers. A delight to the hopeless romantics and those who relish the contrast between fragile blooms and harsh unforgiving weather. When most think of brisk mornings, short days and cold hands, others are appreciating the feeling of hot coffee, snuggling in bed and the dramatic scenery that unfolds during this time of year.
Ever wondered how florists put together lasting and robust floral arrangements? How they never seem to fall apart, come out of place, seem to have an almost never ending water supply? Its true that talent and experience does come in to place here. However, even the most sophisticated real and fake flower arrangements need a good base, and that’s where the use of bowls and guards come in.